Mother of Dahmer victim furious on Netflix: “I don’t understand how they could have done this” | TV

TVThe mother of Tony Hughes, a victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, is nothappy with the recently released Netflix series ‘Dahmer – Monster: The JeffreyDahmer Story’. It is unclear to her how the series could ever be made.

The sixth episode of Netflix series ‘Dahmer’ tells the story of 31-year-olddeaf man Tony Hughes. It shows how Jeffrey Dahmer meets Tony and starts arelationship with him. The show implies that when Hughes tries to leave aftera night together, Dahmer kills him with a hammer. The episode ends with Dahmercooking and eating Hughes liver after donating money to the quest set up byHughes mother after her son’s sudden disappearance.

In reality, now 85-year-old Shirley Hughes, who was teaching Bible studies inMilwaukee at the time her son was killed, claims that there are manyinaccuracies in the series. “I don’t see how they were able to make thisseries,” the woman said. “I don’t understand how they can use our names andbring such things out without consulting us as relatives of the victims.” Dueto her distaste for Netflix, the woman has also joined a group of people whoserelatives (sixteen in all) were murdered by Dahmer, who vehemently opposeNetflix’s dramatization of the facts. Especially since the creators of theseries didn’t consult them.

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Rodney Burford as Tony Hughes and Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer in the Netflixseries Dahmer © Netflix

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According to the lead actors of the hit series, including creator Ryan Murphyand Dahmer actor Evan Peters, the series did strive to put the stories of thevictims and the trauma of their families at the center of the production.Nevertheless, without the input of the family members.

For example, the nephew of Dahmer victim Errol Lindsey, Eric Perry, wrote onTwitter that his family members discovered the series when Netflix released iton September 21, and it quickly became the platform’s most-watched show.Without being notified in advance. But Perry’s niece also wrote separately onTwitter that the show felt “harsh and careless.” “Netflix was not required toconsult the victims’ families because the events portrayed in it are public.But the way it happened has traumatized the loved ones of those killed byDahmer again,” Perry added.

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